MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987.

South by Java Head / Alistair MacLean. - New York : American Reprint Co., 1975, c1958. - 288 p ; 23 cm.

Reprint of the 1958 ed. published by Fawcett Publications, Greenwich, Conn.

A combination of soldiers, nurses, civilian refugees, a young boy, and a spy attempt to escape the burning city of Singapore aboard the "Kerry Dancer," a freighter staffed by an infamous captain and crew, the "Viroma," which is sunk, and eventually in open boats as they are chased across the South China Sea.

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0891901736 (trade) 9780891901730 (trade)

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World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

PZ4.M1626 PR6063.A248 / So7

823/.914 [Fic]